News & Announcements

The Leslie Lab attended the Frontiers in Biophysics 2022 conference in downtown Vancouver! We had a great time sharing our posters, watching presentations, and engaging in conversation with other biophysicists. The conference was focused on quantitative biology and biophysics and we are looking forward to next year’s event! More information

Members of the Leslie Lab attended the 17th Liposome Research Days right here in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia! One of our postdocs, Albert Kamanzi, gave a talk on lipid nanoparticle fusion dynamics. Other members of our lab got to watch presentations, build meaningful connections, and socialize with

The Leslie Lab was represented at the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering (SBME) Symposium by several members of our team. It was a wonderful opportunity to share our findings with the broader UBC community and we look forward to attending again next year! More information can be found here  

Sabrina receives UBC’s 2021 faculty research award with the UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship (KARF), supporting early-career researchers ready to launch the next stage of their careers. Find the official announcement here. Faculty Research Awards, such as the KARF, recognize the research excellence and scholarly achievements of faculty from across all

Two of our PhD students, Cindy Shaheen and Frank Stabile, attended the Biophysical Society of Canada’s annual meeting in Ottawa, Ontario. Frank presented a poster on CRISPR kinetics and Cindy presented a poster and a student talk on DNA structural dynamics. Congratulations to Cindy for winning the BSC travel award!

This year’s symposium gathered top researchers working in small RNAs to discuss their biology and to foster the invention of powerful clinical tools by employing RNAs in novel ways. Sabrina was invited to speak in Santa Fe, New Mexico where Convex Lens-induced Confinement (CLiC) microscopy was recognized as an emerging